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New (AMAZING) Music Video by Naive New Beaters

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:37:00 -0400

New (AMAZING) Music Video by Naive New Beaters

whateverlolawants: More Ryan Pfluger. Cannot get enough of his...

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 20:26:37 -0400

whateverlolawants:

More Ryan Pfluger. Cannot get enough of his photography today…

Restaurant Florent Takes Its Final Bows - New York...

Wed, 21 May 2008 09:59:00 -0400

Restaurant Florent Takes Its Final Bows - New York Times

“We would charter buses from the restaurant and drive down to D.C. for marches. We did two gay rights marches. Two Naral marches. We’d have Dee-Lite and Cyndi Lauper and David Byrne joining us. For $25, people got a trip to D.C. and breakfast and wine. We’d all drink wine before we came back, in the parking lot.”

No sleep ‘til my mattress is shot | Home of the Vain

Wed, 21 May 2008 07:33:33 -0400

No sleep ‘til my mattress is shot | Home of the Vain

A Primer [Poetry: The New Yorker]

Mon, 19 May 2008 14:04:17 -0400

A Primer [Poetry: The New Yorker]: I remember Michigan fondly as the place I go to be in Michigan. The right hand of America waving from maps or the left pressing into clay a mold to take home from kindergarten to Mother. I lived in Michigan forty-three years. The state bird is a chained factory gate. The state flower is Lake Superior, which sounds egotistical though it is merely cold and deep as truth. A Midwesterner can use the word “truth,” can sincerely use the word “sincere.” In truth the Midwest is not mid or west. When I go back to Michigan I drive through Ohio. There is off I-75 in Ohio a mosque, so life goes corn corn corn mosque, I wave at Islam, which we’re not getting along with on account of the Towers as I pass. Then Ohio goes corn corn corn billboard, goodbye, Islam. You never forget how to be from Michigan when you’re from Michigan. It’s like riding a bike of ice and fly fishing. The Upper Peninsula is a spare state in case Michigan goes flat. I live now in Virginia, which has no backup plan but is named the same as my mother, I live in my mother again, which is creepy but so is what the skin under my chin is doing, suddenly there’s a pouch like marsupials are needed. The state joy is spring. “Osiris, we beseech thee, rise and give us baseball” is how we might sound were we Egyptian in April, when February hasn’t ended. February is thirteen months long in Michigan. We are a people who by February want to kill the sky for being so gray and angry at us. “What did we do?” is the state motto. There’s a day in May when we’re all tumblers, gymnastics is everywhere, and daffodils are asked by young men to be their wives. When a man elopes with a daffodil, you know where he’s from. In this way I have given you a primer. Let us all be from somewhere. Let us tell each other everything we can.

found on flickr

Fri, 16 May 2008 22:15:00 -0400

found on flickr

Minute Waltz

Fri, 16 May 2008 09:56:53 -0400

Minute Waltz

"Primeiro Comando da Capital (PCC), Brazil"

Thu, 15 May 2008 15:17:11 -0400

“Primeiro Comando da Capital (PCC), Brazil”

- The World’s Most Dangerous Gangs

via gazeta mercantil via gothamist

Thu, 15 May 2008 14:53:04 -0400

via gazeta mercantil via gothamist

Noah Kalina. Blog.

Wed, 14 May 2008 12:34:38 -0400

Noah Kalina. Blog.

"I found some astonishing things in the course of my study that had never occurred to me. Frankly, in..."

Sun, 11 May 2008 18:00:40 -0400

““I found some astonishing things in the course of my study that had never occurred to me. Frankly, in the days that when I thought I’d had it with religion, I just found the whole thing absolutely incredible. These doctrines seemed unproven, abstract, and, to my astonishment, when I began seriously studying other traditions, I began to realize that belief, which we make such a fuss about today, is only a very recent religious enthusiasm. It surfaced only in the West, in about the 17th century. The word ‘belief’ itself originally meant to love, to prize, to hold dear. In the 17th century it narrowed its focus, for reasons that I’m exploring in a book I’m writing at the moment, to mean an intellectual ascent to a set of propositions — a credo. ‘I believe’ did not mean ‘I accept certain creedal articles of faith.’ It meant, ‘I commit myself. I engage myself.’ Indeed, some of the world traditions think very little of religious orthodoxy. In the Qur’an, religious opinion — religious orthodoxy — is dismissed as zanna — self-indulgent guesswork about matters that nobody can be certain of one way or the other but which makes people quarrelsome and stupidly sectarian. So, if religion is not about believing things, what is it about? What I’ve found is that, across the board, religion is about behaving differently. Instead of deciding whether or not you believe in God, first you do something, you behave in a committed way, and then you begin to understand the truths of religion. And religious doctrines are meant to be summons to action: you only understand them when you put them into practice.””

- SOF Observed

One tiny speck | dooce ®

Thu, 08 May 2008 10:39:08 -0400

One tiny speck | dooce ®

Paul's Muxtape

Wed, 07 May 2008 15:32:26 -0400

Paul's Muxtape: listening to…

The Costume Institute’s Party of The Year Tilda...

Tue, 06 May 2008 11:39:00 -0400

The Costume Institute’s Party of The Year

Tilda Swinton, in Prada and Fred Leighton jewels, with Justin Bond.

Biking in Queens on 04/26/08

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 13:20:00 -0400

Biking in Queens on 04/26/08

Sleeveface

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 10:02:26 -0400

Sleeveface

LooLoo

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 14:01:43 -0400

LooLoo

"The climate-change crisis is at its very bottom a crisis of lifestyle — of character, even."

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 10:53:27 -0400

“The climate-change crisis is at its very bottom a crisis of lifestyle — of character, even.”

- The Green Issue - Climate Change - Environment - Energy Efficiency - Consumption - New York Times

betahouse by aurgasm

Sat, 19 Apr 2008 18:01:37 -0400

betahouse by aurgasm

Photo

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 12:10:59 -0400